96 LEPIDOl'TERA IXDIUA. 



Genus CALLEREBIA.. 



Callerebia, Butler, Annals Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 217 ; Catal, Satyr. Brit. Miis. p. 96 (1868); Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. 1868, p. 194. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 243 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Wings short. Forewing broad, subtriangular ; costa mucli 

 arclied, apex rounded, exterior margin slightly convex, posterior angle rounded ; 

 cell broad, extending to more than half the wing ; costal vein much swollen at the 

 base, median vein slightly swollen ; first and second subcostal branches emitted 

 before end of the cell, the first at some distance before, and the second close to the 

 end ; upper discocellular short and inwardly-oblique, angled close to the subcostal, 

 lower discocellular long, excurved ; upper radial from angle close to the subcostal, 

 lower radial from the middle below the end of upper discocellular ; median branches 

 at nearly equal distances apart; submedian slightly recurved from the base. Hind- 

 wing very broad, obtusely-conical ; anterior margin convex, apex round, exterior 

 margin convex, anal angle somewhat produced and slightly lobular, abdominal 

 margin recurved and convex towards the base ; cell long, broad across the middle ; 

 first subcostal branch emitted at some distance before end of the cell ; discocellular 

 very oblique, slightly concave anteriorly, radial from above the middle ; the middle 

 median emitted at some distance before end of the cell. Body slender ; palpi densely 

 hairy to the tip, above, and beneath ; antennse with a lengthened slender tip. 



TiPE. — C. Scanda. 



Habits. — The species of Callerebia " are autumnal insects of weak flopping 

 flight, with an irregular pitching action ; frequenting bare grassy slopes [hybrida], 

 or else hedges, copses, and fields near woods [Nirmala and Scanda]." (Col. A. M. 

 Lang, MS. Notes). In the Western Himalayas they afl^ect lower elevations than 

 the species of Paralasa, and are common in the outer ranges at 6000 feet elevation. 



CALLEREBIA OKIXA (Plate 115, fig. 2, 2a, (J ? ). 



■ Callerebia Orixa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1872, p. 555, (J. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt. 

 of India, etc. i. p. 245 (1883). Butler, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 301. 

 Calhrebia ophthalmica, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 227, pi. 81 (1887). 



Imago. — Male. Uppcrside dark olivescent umber-brown, vinescent in some 

 lights ; exterior borders slightly paler ; both wings traversed by a slender dusky- 

 brown submarginal line ; cilia with a cinerescent-white inner line. Forewing with a 

 large prominent subapical rounded black ocellus, which is bipupilled with bluish, 

 white and has a broad bright reddish-ochreous outer ring. Eindwing with a small 

 round subanal ocellus with a single pupil. Underside paler, but of a brighter and 

 redder-brown on the hindwing. Foreiving with the apical border slightly mottled 

 with ciuercscent striga3 ; the ocellus as above, the submarginal dusky fascia joining 



